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>[DELIVERED] $10,000: Publish full GPU control timeline free of third-party ads on the website
>$20,000: Edit & Release unpublished Hong Kong market footage in upcoming video focused on PC hardware culture and markets in Asia
>[DELIVERED] $30,000: Add high-quality cityscape drone shots, animations, and increase music licensing budget for the documentary
>$40,000: Edit & Release FULL 48GB GPU MODIFICATION VIDEO
>[DELIVERED] $50,000: Release the documentary without any directly sold computer hardware ads (only GN store ads and YouTube AdSense ads)
>$60,000: Edit and polish the research document and release a short version of the most critical points on the website, free of third-party ads
>$80,000: Create written article version of the full documentary (free of third-party ads)
>STRETCH GOALS
>$150,000: Physically drive to the US State Department and US Commerce Department to seek answers (and probably promptly get turned away), as neither has responded to emails
>$200,000: Distribute digital backer rewards on physical USB keys that can be reused later. Drive to Microcenter, make a video of driving Microcenter and buying all the USB sticks, load the digital content for tiers onto them, and also load an exclusive photo of Snowflake only available via the USB sticks
>SUPER STRETCH GOALS
>$225,000: A full feature, separate video seeking interviews with lawmakers and elected officials about this topic. We adjust the plan for the $150,000 stretch goal. Now, instead of simply driving to Washington DC and likely being turned away, we will actively seek out interview bookings by emailing Senators, Congresspeople, Representatives, and other elected officials until we find people who will speak with us. Instead of becoming a smaller video upload where we likely just get ignored (similar to how our emails to the Secretary of State & Commerce Department were ignored), we now will aim to arrange at least one, but hopefully a few, interviews with elected officials to discuss this topic. This will be a separate, full feature upload once arranged. We cannot put a firm date on it yet as it would depend upon the schedule of the officials who agree. This would still include physically driving to Washington, DC or other government building locations for interviews. This would be uploaded publicly to the GNCA YouTube channel.
>$250,000: We film a separate publicly available upload for the GN channel where we build a high-end, I/O-specialized PC (likely with help from Wendell at Level1 Techs) and figure out how to load all the USB keys that we are sending to ALL BACKERS with Digital Rewards. The video would be a fun PC build project where we get to do some problem-solving for the most efficient way to 'burn' the files to USB keys. This adjusts the plan for the $200,000 stretch goal and uploads to the GN channel within a few months.
>$300,000: For ALL BACKERS with Digital Rewards, your own high-quality, digital copy of our finalized movie loaded onto the USB sticks that will be yours to preserve in the event our movie is ever taken offline. Usual Copyright laws apply (do not redistribute/reupload our footage or re-use it for profit -- unless we're taken offline, then go for it); however, this would be your copy and would also allow you to watch it without any AdSense ads on your own offline devices in the future.
>$400,000: WE GO BACK TO CHINA to produce a feature-length, educational series exploring factories, including showing the start-to-finish design and production process for a popular computer component (separate from other factory tours we have coming up). This would feature interviews with people like designers, manufacturing engineers, and product managers to unveil never-before-revealed details about production cost. We will work with a hardware company to thoroughly document the behind-the-scenes design and making, including the challenges, of a new product. This would be an unfiltered, independent educational look at the process. These kinds of videos are typically difficult to fund due to the educational focus of them; however, they bring important insights that are not only interesting for enthusiasts, but useful for those who may want to work in similar industries. This will require more time to deliver than prior stretch goals due to the nature of travel. If this is met, we will update you all in HW News with the progress.
>SUPER Ti STRETCH GOALS
>$600,000: An unexpected delay in this process was the rendering. Rendering this full-length movie was not possible on our current editing machines in any reasonable amount of time (or at all, on some of them). Last-minute, we used our Threadripper test bench to render the movie instead. If we hit this amount, we will build multiple Threadripper editing machines for our office, film the process for a PUBLIC UPLOAD, and include unique benchmarks specifically testing this movie render file against various CPU and GPU configurations to provide public data as to the real performance impact of various builds while also improving our capabilities to edit and render our next movies.
>$700,000: Dick pics of all the staff of Gamer Nexus.
Yes.